Barbara: (from 11/30/97)
>'efficient'. Or perhaps most patients are different from me and only
>want a simple treatment without having to understand their bodies?

Yes. This doesn't require to change their livestyles and is much easier
than thinking about the reasons which led to a disease. I don't blame
the doctors only. The patients partially have caused this problem too.

Barbara:
>I also find that I frequently burp when I have just drunk some water or
>eaten some fruit. Again, I was not aware of this prior to eating a
>high-raw diet, and I have the feeling that it is not just swallowed air
>that is being released, but something else. Any ideas?

I remember, that I burped after drinking something and after meals when
I was a child. Later this got lost somehow. Now with raw foods I watch
it again.
I attribute it to the change from aerobic to nonaerobic (sp?) digestion.
Cooked foods cause aerobic digestion where the bacteria in your gut
need the oxygen you swallow. Nonaerobic digestion gives room only for
those bacteria which do not need oxygen. It costs much less energy.
Any obsolete air you swallowed is discarded by burping.
At least this is is my theory.

As for the rumbling in your digestion I think it comes from miscombina-
tions of foods. For instance, if I eat a sour fruit after ingestion of
a sweet one I frequently notice gas and rumbling.
Frequently if I eat in wrong sequence (sweet, then sour) I find the
sour food coming out first. So it must have passed the sweet things.
This process I notice to be rumbling and noise. I think, that good di-
gestion should give none of these signs.

Barbara:
>was evidence of some decay around it. When he replaced the filling, he
>commented that he was surprised the tooth hadn't given me more trouble,
>considering the state it was in. (The drilling went through to the nerve.)

Which material was used for the old and the new filling?

Raw eaters frequently have less sensations of pain but that doesn't
mean that you should ignore tooth problems.
Teeth are a difficult issue even (if not more) under a raw regimen.
If there are frequent problems I would go for an examination always.
You've got no second set of teeth.
And I'd never ever have an amalgam filling installed. I am so happy
that I have gotten rid of those nasties and have overcome most of the
consequences.

Best regards,

Stefan

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